Opportunity Information: Apply for SFOP0010259
The FY 2024 Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellowship is a U.S. Department of State grant competition run by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), specifically its Office of Citizen Exchanges, Youth Programs Division. It supports the design and delivery of a four-week, U.S.-based summer program to be held in summer 2025. The overall purpose is to bring together young people from the United States and Europe for an intensive exchange centered on shared democratic values, practical leadership development, and deeper understanding of transatlantic cooperation.
The fellowship is built around a cohort of roughly 55 teenagers: approximately 45 participants from countries across Europe and about 10 participants from the United States, all ages 16 to 18. U.S. embassies throughout Europe will handle recruitment and selection of the European participants, while the organization that receives the award is responsible for recruiting and selecting the U.S. participants. In practice, this means the grantee must be prepared to coordinate closely with U.S. government partners overseas on the international participant pipeline while independently running a fair and well-documented domestic selection process for American students.
Programming priorities include transatlantic relations and the skills young adults need to collaborate across borders and cultures, with emphasis on leadership development, critical thinking, diplomacy, community activism, and media literacy or engagement. The intent is not just classroom-style learning, but hands-on exposure to how civic life works, how ideas move through media ecosystems, and how youth can build coalitions around common goals even when they come from different national and cultural contexts. The fellowship also includes a follow-on component: participants receive support for individual or small group projects they carry out after returning home, allowing them to apply what they learned through community-based initiatives rather than treating the exchange as a one-time experience.
From a funding and administrative standpoint, this opportunity is a discretionary award made through a cooperative agreement, which typically means substantial involvement by ECA in shaping or monitoring implementation compared to a standard grant. The opportunity is listed under CFDA (Assistance Listing) 19.415. ECA expects to make one award, with an award ceiling of $250,000. The funding opportunity number is SFOP0010259. Eligible applicants are U.S. public or private nonprofit organizations that meet the requirements of 26 USC 501(c)(3), including accredited U.S. post-secondary educational institutions, meaning universities and colleges with nonprofit status are explicitly eligible alongside other qualifying nonprofits.
Key timeline details in the announcement indicate the application closing date was April 16, 2024, and the funded project would culminate in delivering the four-week residential or U.S.-based program in summer 2025, followed by the supported community follow-on activities in participants home communities. Applicants would be expected to propose the program design, logistics, participant experience, staffing, safeguarding and duty-of-care approach for minors, methods for achieving learning outcomes in the stated themes, and a clear plan for administering and monitoring follow-on micro-projects or activities after participants return home.Apply for SFOP0010259
- The Bureau Of Educational and Cultural Affairs in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2024 Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellowship" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.415.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-02-15.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-04-16. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $250,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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